Never had an instagram account, but I have been uploading pictures to PixelFed. Nobody really comments or likes my stuff, but it’s more about curating some photos online that I can send someone a link to for fun on occasion.
This is only true if the mastodon instance in question has gotten copies of the post—if nobody on an instance follows your pixelfed account, and nobody on an instance follows an account that boosts posts from your pixelfed account, then (with a few exceptions) the post won’t appear in that instance’s Federated feed or that instance’s hashtag feeds
That’s so cool that you can import your photos from instagram. I’m always impressed by things like that. And yeah. It seems like Instagram is 95% ads and “Suggested content” or whatever. It’s really frustrating.
I've signed up for it. I didn't use Instagram much at all and deactivated my account 3-4 years ago now so I don't expect I'll use Pixelfed much, but from what I've seen so far I would increase my usage of it if followed hashtags appeared in your feed.
Maybe I'm missing something, as I said I'm new as shit to it, but following people has them show up in my feed, following hashtags seems to resort in me having to just fuck myself. If that ever changes I'll play with it some more.
I have the exact same complaint. From what I see you can browse followed hashtags in the "Discover" tab but even then - it's showing the feed per hashtag, so you have to click each individual one to see the tagged posts and you can't browse a feed based on all followed hashtags. This is very impractical, and I basically stopped browsing pixelfed due to this.
(edit: also just discovered that comfort_zone already said this, for some reason other replies weren't visible at the time)
I just discovered that on the web interface, you can see posts under a followed hashtag by going to "Discover" on the menu, then "My Hashtags", but they don't seem to sync from pixel.social (or whereever) to an app you're using.
For iOS, Vernissage doesn't seem to support hashtags, but in Tusker you can add the hashtag in the app, then see related posts by tapping "Explore" and then selecting the hashtag from your list that's displayed. Or you can also pin in to the top as a custom timeline by tapping the setting button at the top on the main screen, and adding your hashtag from there.
Which... I guess may make more sense than putting them in the Home feed to prevent tag abuse?
Hmm..so on that Discover>My Hashtags page, just on the website. I'm following a good dozen-or-two hashtags..I only seem to have three appear on that My Hashtags page at a time. And at random. What the fuck lmao.
huh, confirmed. I added 4 hashtags and it only displays 3.
Joy of software in development, I guess. Looks like there's also a bug, in that sometimes after I follow a hashtag, I have to reload the page with F5 because it doesn't do anything when I click menu options.
The PixelFed app is in TestFlight on iOS at the moment but the I believe it should be a full release in the near future according to the dev (@dansup).
I signed up for it and have Pixelfed installed on my Android phone. I was planning to use it as a replacement for Imgur when I need a quick image hosting site to share a picture from.
That’s true, but that’s no good if it never hits the App Store. How am I to persuade my friends to use it when there are partially complete features and they aren’t going to sign up for TestFlight? (Which is full anyway.)
More of an Apple issue to be honest, when you don’t have a feature complete application it’s very difficult to push past TestFlight if you aren’t ready.
It’s got a strong Web App however that also works incredibly well.
That was really my point. Instead of adding extras. It would be better to finish the basic feature set and then release. If features are never completed because of the distraction of new features then an app will never be released.
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